| [00:04.15] | The Railways in Britain |
| [00:06.69] | The success of early railways such as the lines between big cities |
| [00:11.71] | led to a great increase in railway building in Victorian Times. |
| [00:16.93] | Between 1835 and 1865 about 25,000 kilometers of tracks were built. |
| [00:23.88] | And over 199 railway companies were created. |
| [00:28.01] | Railway travel transformed people's lives. |
| [00:31.20] | Trains were first designed to carry goods. |
| [00:34.54] | However, a law in the 19th century forced railway companies to run one cheap train a day, |
| [00:42.06] | which stopped at every station and cost only a penny a mile. |
| [00:46.60] | Soon, working class passengers found they could afford to travel by rail. |
| [00:52.03] | Cheap day excursion trains became popular and seaside resorts grew rapidly. |
| [00:58.08] | The railways also provided thousands of new jobs, |
| [01:02.04] | building carriages, running the railways and repairing the tracks. |
| [01:07.25] | Railways even changed the time. |
| [01:09.62] | The need to run the railways on time meant that local time was abolished |
| [01:14.36] | and clocks showed the same time all over the country. |
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